Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF

VCR

Market cap $6B

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR) is down nearly 9% year-to-date, but the story behind that number matters more than the number itself.

Wall Street's consensus forecasts say the information technology and consumer discretionary sectors will beat the S&P 500 in the next year. The Vanguard Information Technology ETF provides exposure to hundreds of companies likely to benefit from artificial intelligence and digital transformation.

The Vanguard Consumer Discretionary Index Fund ETF Shares (VCR) was launched on January 26, 2004, and is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to offer broad exposure to the Consumer Discretionary - Broad segment of the equity market.

The latter half of the quarterly earnings season has been dominated by a heavy dose of retailer updates. Names reporting earnings include Walmart, Target, and other mainstay consumer discretionary retailers.

The Vanguard Information Technology ETF provides heavy exposure to Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft. The Vanguard Communications Service ETF provides heavy exposure to Alphabet and Meta Platforms.

VCR is comprised of nearly 300 large-, mid-, and small-cap Consumer Discretionary stocks. Its expense ratio is 0.09%, and the ETF has $6.1B in assets under management. VCR is dominated by Amazon and Tesla, which combine for about 40% representation. This is substantially different from even ten years ago, which makes long-term performance statistics less relevant. As such, this analysis focuses on VCR's current fundamentals, and for the most part, they aren't very encouraging. Most disappointing are VCR's negative one- and three-year historical earnings growth rates.

Wall Street says the information technology and consumer discretionary sectors will beat the S&P 500 in the next year. The Vanguard Information Technology ETF provides heavy exposure to Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft.

The Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (VCR) was launched on January 26, 2004, and is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to offer broad exposure to the Consumer Discretionary - Broad segment of the equity market.

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Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (VCR) offers capital-weighted exposure to U.S. consumer cyclical stocks, with low fees and high liquidity. VCR most often outperforms XLY in value and historical returns. VCR, XLY, and FDIS are similar in fees and risk-adjusted performance.